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Documentary image — educational archive purposes only
preserved
Love is in the Bin
YEAR
2018
MEDIUM
Oil on canvas / industrial shredder
LOCATION
Sotheby's, London
COUNTRY
UK
[ DESCRIPTION ]
Moments after "Girl with Balloon" sold at auction for £1,042,000, a hidden shredder in the frame activated and destroyed the lower half of the canvas.
[ CRITICAL ANALYSIS ]
The most spectacular single act of art-world subversion in recent memory. By pre-installing a shredder in the frame and timing it to activate at the hammer price, Banksy literalised the critique of art as commodity — and in doing so, doubled the work's value. Now titled "Love is in the Bin."
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